Blood at the Root
Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America is a 2016 non-fiction book written by Patrick Phillips investigating the 1912 Racial Conflict of Forsyth County, Georgia.[1][2][3]
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| Author | Patrick Phillips |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Non-fiction, race and ethnicity in the United States, History |
| Published | 2016 |
| Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
| Pages | 302[1] |
| ISBN | 978-0-393-29301-2 |
Overview
In Forsyth County, Georgia, September 1912, three young black laborers were accused of murdering and raping a white girl. What followed was bands of white "night riders" that drove all 1,098 black citizens out of the county via arson and terror. The title Blood at the Root comes from the song Strange Fruit about the lynchings of African Americans in the South.[4]
Summary
Introduction - Law of the Land
On September 10th, 1912 in Forsyth County, Georgia three young black people and were suspected because of a white girl named Mae Crow had been left in the woods along the Chattahoochee River, in the Appalachian foothills north of Atlanta and been left beaten and was left there to die. They were to be tried, convicted, and sentenced to hang. The author Patrick Phillips goes on to talk about how all of Forsyth believed in racial purity being their birthright.
Chapter 1 - The Scream
On September 5th, 1912 Ellen Grice had let out a scream at night, it is not know why Grice would let out a scream, but then newspapers started talking about how a black rapist went through Grice's window.
Chapter 2 -Riot, Rout, Tumult
References
- Fresh Air transcript (September 15, 2016). "The 'Racial Cleansing' That Drove 1,100 Black Residents Out Of Forsyth County, Ga". npr.org. NPR.
- Phillips, Patrick (August 26, 2016). "Blood at the Root (book excerpt)". MyAJC. Retrieved 2018-09-16.
- "Nonfiction Book Review: Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America by Patrick Phillips. Norton, $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-393-29301-2". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2018-09-16.
- Anderson, Carol (2016-09-28). "American Apartheid: A Georgia County Drove Out All Its Black Citizens in 1912". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-12-08.